2015 schedule: Homestead still finale

A revamped format to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship this season, coupled with NBC taking over the second half of the television schedule next season, gives NASCAR an opportunity to make scheduling changes.

"There will be a robust discussion that will be for those reasons a more comprehensive look at what the best schedule will look like," he said.

France also noted multiple weather delays this year at several race tracks as reason for considering tweaks. Saturday night's scheduled race at Daytona was postponed until Sunday because of rain, and the season-opening Daytona 500 was stopped for more than six hours.

Bristol had a significant rain delay in March, and Texas was postponed a day in April.

"There's been some weather issues, as you well know, in the last several years at Bristol as an example, and then some other things that we would naturally look at as we go along in the schedule, and now that the Chase format is changed, there's additional interest to move from one place to another," he said.

But, France said there are no current plans to award a coveted Sprint Cup race to Iowa Speedway. The track was acquired last year by NASCAR sister company International Speedway Corp., but only hosts the Nationwide Series, Truck Series and IndyCar.

"We're working with the state representatives and others to help us build racing in Iowa to the highest level that we can," he said. "But they've got a nice full schedule with IndyCar and Nationwide, and I think that's where that remains."

France also indicated the season finale is staying put for the "foreseeable future" at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The track recently extended its sponsorship agreement with Ford Motor Co. through at least 2019, with an option to extend through 2024.

"We've liked the fact that to do it in South Florida, the weather is great that time of year, it's a good market for us," he said.

France touched on five other topics Saturday at Daytona:

• Sprint Cup regular Kyle Busch has won all five Truck Series races he has entered this season and has been nearly as dominant in the second-tier Nationwide Series, posting 12 top-five finishes in 13 starts. Fans have taken notice, with many of them crying foul play. But NASCAR doesn't sound as if it's close to limiting Cup drivers to a certain number of starts in lower series.

Although NASCAR officials talked about potentially implementing a rule in February, France said Saturday that nothing is on the horizon.

"That's always a question," he said. "When a Cup driver gets in and has a lot of success -- Mark Martin did that for a long time in the Nationwide -- and there's always that balance. But where we usually come out on that is that the younger drivers gain valuable experience even if somebody gets on a run and tends to win more events than is normal.

"So we try to balance that out, but we lean on the side of the greater experience for the younger drivers to get a chance to compete against, and also for our fans to want to watch the elite drivers not just on Sundays. We tend to let the events unfold the way they unfold."